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UnitedHealth Group Senior Software Engineer 1 - Devops and Platform in Bengaluru, India
Requisition number: 2345668
Job category: Technology
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Overview
We are requesting a new senior-level position to support the expansion of the RCM Common Data Platform, with a strong focus on AI‑driven agentic workflows. The role is vital to scaling platform capabilities, supporting new product/enhancement work, re‑platforming initiatives, and strengthening cloud infrastructure, DevOps automation, and AI-enabled data processes.
Business Risk if Not Filled
20% reduction in development capacity, significantly impacting timelines
Inability to meet business demand, affecting revenue growth and modernization plans
Reduced ability to support AI initiatives, platform migration efforts, and secure cloud operations
Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.
These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways.
Primary Responsibilities:
Serve as a Senior DevOps/ Platform/AI ML Engineer within a cross-functional engineering team
Support data ingestion, transformation, and automation within Azure Databricks
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for Terraform deployments, Azure resource provisioning, and application workflows
Develop, automate, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform and GitHub Actions
Implement and monitor secure configurations, resolve vulnerabilities, and ensure compliance across cloud and on‑prem environments
Manage and enhance networking including VNet peering, DNS, Front Door, load balancers, and firewall configurations
Build and manage data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Airflow, Terraform, and Spark
Implement Identity and Access Management, security controls, and cloud governance
Integrate AI/ML pipelines and enable AI‑driven automation across the SDLC
Support platform modernization, re‑platforming, and enhancement initiatives
Analyzes and investigates
Provides explanations and interpretations within area of expertise
Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so
Required Qualifications:
5+ years experience in DevOps engineering
5+ years hands-on experience with Azure Cloud, Databricks, and Spark
Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams
Proven experience integrating AI/ML processes into cloud and DevOps workflows
Solid expertise in:
GitHub Actions
DevOps
Terraform
Cloud networking
Security vulnerability remediation
Azure Databricks
Agentic workflow, AI/ML
Solid experience in:
VNet peering
DNS configuration
Azure Front Door
Subnets, Load Balancers, firewalls
Data and AI
Azure Databricks:
Data models
Data management
Access management
Automation using AI
Experience in PySpark, SQL
Building data ingestion frameworks
AI‑driven insights and development/deployment of AI agents
Experience leveraging AI in the SDLC (AI-assisted coding, reviews, automation)
Key Skills and Expertise:
Azure Cloud (5+ years)
DevOps (5+ years)
Cloud, DevOps and Infrastructure, Agentic workflow, AI/ML
Terraform for infrastructure development and maintenance
Azure Resource management for IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
GitHub Actions - advanced CI/CD pipeline design, build & release automation
Infrastructure deployment automation using GitHub Actions + Terraform
Docker, automated build pipelines
Security and Compliance
Experience identifying and managing security vulnerabilities in on‑prem and cloud infrastructure
Knowledge of:
Secure configuration
Secure networking
Secure coding vulnerabilities
Anomalies and known exploit mitigation
Hands-on experience with security scanning tools:
Prisma Compute
Tenant security scans
GitHub Dependabot
Azure Defender
Networking
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
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